The publication
Privacy at Marks & Blinds
A static publication with no script, no cookie of its own and nothing loaded from another domain. What follows is the short list of what that leaves.
This page describes what happens to a reader on this site, in plain terms, and the honest summary is that almost nothing happens. Marks & Blinds is a set of static pages. There is no account to create, no form to fill in, no comment thread, no newsletter signup and no advertising system, and the absence of all of those removes most of the reasons a website collects anything at all.
No cookie, and no measurement
This site sets no cookie of its own. It runs no analytics, no tag manager, no heat map, no session recorder and no visitor counter. There is no script on any page of this publication, which means there is nothing running in your browser that could record what you read, how long you stayed or where you went afterwards.
That is a design decision rather than an oversight, and it has a cost worth naming: this publication does not know which of its pages are read. It accepts that, because a reference site does not need an audience profile to be correct, and because the alternative is asking every reader to carry a piece of surveillance in exchange for reading about hunting tests.
No third party is asked for anything
Every file a page needs is served from this domain. The stylesheet, the icon and the images are all local. No font is fetched from an external service, no library is loaded from a content delivery network, no video is embedded, no map is framed and no social widget appears anywhere on the site.
This matters more than the cookie question. A page that loads a font, a script or an image from another company tells that company you visited, even if the page itself stores nothing. Here, no other company is contacted at all, so no third party learns that this site exists in your browsing history.
What happens if you write
There is exactly one address on this site, [email protected], and there is no form behind it. Writing to it means sending an email, with everything an email normally carries: your address, your message, and whatever your own mail service attaches to it.
Messages are read and kept while they are useful, which for a correction means until the page has been checked and, if necessary, changed. They are not added to any list, they are not used to send you anything you did not ask for, and they are not shared. If you want a message removed, write and say so, using the same address.
The feed, and reading without visiting
The publication offers an RSS feed, which is the one way to follow it without a subscription of any kind. A feed reader fetches a file; nothing is registered on this end, no address is collected and no confirmation is required. It is deliberately the only follow mechanism offered here.
Links that leave this site
A link to another site takes you to somebody else's rules. Once you have followed one, what is collected and what is stored is decided by whoever runs the page you land on, and nothing on this page applies there. That is worth remembering with any outbound link anywhere, and it is one of the reasons this publication keeps them few and deliberate. Where a link is part of a commercial arrangement, it is marked as such and the practice is described on the sponsored content policy.
Changes to this page
If any of the above stops being true, this page changes first and the change is announced with a date in notes and rule updates, in the same way a corrected figure is. That is the same procedure used for everything else published here, and it is set out in sources and method.
Questions about anything on this page go to the same address as everything else, through contact the desk. Who is responsible for what is published, and how a page gets written in the first place, is set out on the editorial policy.